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come. The part is then given to an assistant to hold 

 firmly, while the practitioner inserts the point of the cathe- 

 ter, which he pushes forward with his right hand, while he 

 places his left beneath the anus, in order to turn the tube 

 by manipulation when it shall have reached the perineieum. 

 The rest is straightforward work, only be careful to make 

 steady continued, rather than sudden or violent pressure. 

 After the urine has been evacuated, inject a gallon of cold 

 spring water, with which an ounce of tincture of gall nuts . 

 has been mixed ; and if this last is, at the time, or shortly 

 afterwards ejected, no fears need be entertained about the 

 lost tone. If it is not cast forth, draw it oft\ and inject an- 

 other gallon, and continue till the bladder freely contracts. 

 At the same time you may give a clyster, composed of two 

 quarts of cold water, with two ounces of sulphuric ether, 

 and the same quantity of laudanum, which may be repeated 

 for three times. Mild food and good water, both procured 

 from a new source, is all that is required to perfect the 

 cure, excepting it may be thought proper to give a dose of 

 physic upon recovery. 



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We know that the womb is liable to become inflamed 

 by participation with extensive abdominal inflammations. 

 When the disease is so universal as to involve this part, 

 the case must be hopeless ; and we therefore shall abstain 

 from giving any directions as to treatment. We know, 

 however, that inflammation occasionally attacks mares 

 after abortion ; after difficult foaling also, when injudicious 

 eftbrts have been made to produce delivery ; in which cases 

 the animal never recovers from the prostration into which 

 the act of labour has cast her. The general signs of 

 intense fever are exhibited. The animal appears wild or 

 delirious. She blows much ; and the young one by her 

 side is entirely neglected. A dark fluid, having a strong 

 smell, drains from the vulva. These are most dangerous 

 cases, nor are we able from the exhausted state of the 

 patient, to adopt all the measures we might think of. A 

 mustard poultice, however, followed by a sheepskin, may 

 be placed upon the loins, and an ammoniacal blister applied 

 to the belly. A gallon of tepid water, in which half an 



